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• First food: business of taste

  Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it

  • 01/01/2029

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
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• Bayer to cut Cipro price for US

  Drugmaker Bayer AG said it would sell up to 300 million tablets of Cipro to the US government at a discount to help authorities stockpile the antibiotic to cope with the threat of anthrax. The German

  • 26/10/2001

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Saviour Cipro comes from a questionable family

  After anthrax fears spurred everyone from New York's governor to hundreds of postal workers to take the antibiotic Cipro, drug-safety experts are now predicting a rash of health problems caused by

  • 27/10/2001

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Scientists learn how anthrax kills

  Scientists have discovered why anthrax is so deadly. Researchers in the US said they had identified the route by which anthrax toxins enter animal cells and then kill them.

  • 24/10/2001

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Health

• Transgenic mouse developed from male stem cells

  Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn) have used a retrovirus to modify genes in spermatogonial stem cells in a mouse - the first instance, in any species,

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Health

• Surgeon to grow new nose in woman's arm

  A Scottish surgeon is to reconstruct the face of a woman disfigured by a flesh-eating disease by growing a new nose in her arm. Peter Ayliffe, a surgeon at Aberdeen royal infirmary, will perform the

  • 25/10/2001

  • • Health

• Global plan to combat TB launched

  A new global plan to stop the alarming spread of tuberculosis (TB) has been jointly launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Bank (WB) which said Afganistan, Pakistan and India were

  • 26/10/2001

  • • Health

• Anthrax common among cattle in Rajasthan

  Anthrax may have stopped Americans in their tracks, but it's business as usual in Rajasthan, with the disease being common among the cattle here. In stray cases, it's known to have been transmitted

  • 27/10/2001

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Doordarshan bags award for leprosy campaign

  Doordarshan has bagged the prestigious Commonwealth award for social action television programming for its leprosy awareness and prevention campaign carried out in 1999-2000. Instituted by the

  • 25/10/2001

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Infection in Karnataka

  A person from Karnataka has been diagnosed to be suffering from anthrax, state Health Minister Dr A. B. Malka Raddy said today, even as he assured that the Health Department had been put on top gear

  • 25/10/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Dengue is under control : Health official

  The government is taking all measures to prevent dengue from spreading, health officials said today. A total of 59 cases have been reported till now but the situation is better than last year. The

  • 25/10/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health